Fall again

Chp10

Chapter 10 ~ Comfort on enemy's shoulder

I sat at the berth clasping my hands together, to the opposite berth sat Dhruv while Faisal still stayed at the door and Sahil was standing adjacent to me, he continued staring down at me or beaming at me or I don't know what was that look about but I tried to ignore and continued now that I had grasped the situation in my hand.

They didn't know, I was Selena and they were mistaking me for someone else.

Someone who had happened to kill Aarav, apparently.

I saw him jump from the bridge. So this killing him thing was mind-boggling. Either I imagined it or there was more to it.

"You gotta explain yourselves first, how did you find me? Why did you.."I glanced at Faisal then Sahil he met my eyes.

I tried to be angry or hate him but seeing him brings back memories of the boy who I met on the terrace, caught him balancing on the railing then offering me Red bull and all that silly and.. just fun innocent things he did.

I looked away the false face stung painfully.

I don't want to believe that it was a facade. It was too soon to see him differently, now that he made his presence so prominent in my life.

"Pretend to be someone else?" I completed my lips turning down.

"I never pretended Serra, I have always been what I am harmless bystander unless provoked" Faisal replied, shrugging.

I never liked him but I also never disliked him.

"No you didn't, you both" I didnt look at Sahil this time, "played with me you showed me you were someone else when you were.."

Dhruv yawned loudly, "this is very boring let's get to productive talk Ms. Newton, don't you wanna know what do we have against you?"

"What proof were you talking about?" I asked clenching my jaw at Dhruv, stifling my impulse to kill him already.

Dhruv extended a folder in my way when I reached to get it he dropped it at his feet, "oops my bad" he said, casually leaning back sprawling, folding his arms at the back of his head.

I gritted my teeth why was he being such an asshole? and I bent to get it from near his feet but Sahil reached it before I could and held it out for me,

"Here" he offered, gently.

I yanked it from his hold giving him no glance showed my anger through the brisk dismal as how much the new piece of information his real identity had disappointed me more than it should have.

I tore open the folder and threw the tore paper at Dhruv's way, I knew it was childish but he was really getting on my nerves.

It was easier to hate him than the other two

"Looks like Ms. Newton has taken a liking for me" Dhruv said.

"She has a name" Sahil said in a clipped voice.

"And she has a mouth too" I snapped at him he didn't have to defend me, he can't get to defend me, he just cannot after everything.... I pursed my lips and took out the photographs that were inside of the folder.

The photographs taken, were of that night at the bridge.

One was of Aarav, my heart ached seeing his photo, seeing him so alive in it and how he was about to jump and I was-

I froze on noticing a blurred figure behind him down on the bridge.

The photo was taken in an angle that made it appear as if I was pushing Aarav off the bridge into the river. I kept my face blank, it was hard when I flipped the third photo which was of me, the whole face in capture looking down at the river paled with fear and self blame.